Best Tennis Books

Let's put some literature to the business!
I just read Agassi's Open, nice reading, though i personally think he is not the nice guy the book shows.
What I thought was intresting was how well he spoke about winning ugly from B. Gilbert, i got curious and started searching for good mental / tactic tennis books. Got to this is list so far, though i didn't read any:

-Winning Ugly from Brad Gilbert
-Inner Game of Tennis from W. Timothy Gallway

Did any of you read these?? Have you got others to add to this list? Open to discuss!

Let's put some literature to the business!
I just read Agassi's Open, nice reading, though i personally think he is not the nice guy the book shows.
What I thought was intresting was how well he spoke about winning ugly from B. Gilbert, i got curious and started searching for good mental / tactic tennis books. Got to this is list so far, though i didn't read any:

-Winning Ugly from Brad Gilbert
-Inner Game of Tennis from W. Timothy Gallway

Did any of you read these?? Have you got others to add to this list? Open to discuss!

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Read them all, good books. Agassi built a school for inner city kids, dedicating years of his life to the cause. Sounds like he is plenty nice to me.

It's surely honored of him, but what i ment as a nice guy was regarding his personal attitude on the tour... doesn't change the merit of all he has done for the sport and for the society with his school.

It's surely honored of him, but what i ment as a nice guy was regarding his personal attitude on the tour... doesn't change the merit of all he has done for the sport and for the society with his school.

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Agassi was clear to say he had those thoughts then, not now. So I would agree, he was not a very nice guy as he struggled his way through his younger days.

Now I got more confident about them I ordered both for a start, i have the inner game in my hands, but it will take ages (6 weeks) to have winning ugly, because i live in freaking brazil, it wasn't published here, so i will have it imported and read in english, hope it's worth the trouble!

Now I got more confident about them I ordered both for a start, i have the inner game in my hands, but it will take ages (6 weeks) to have winning ugly, because i live in freaking brazil, it wasn't published here, so i will have it imported and read in english, hope it's worth the trouble!

I'll look for Pressure tennis, and Caloi, Open is a time very well spent!
It's funny but a shrink talked me into reading it after saying that he was reading and I had a lot of Agassi's mental issues. (doctors talk...)
At the end of the book I found out he was right! I just wish i could play like him as well.. :-?

Beyond the obvious books I think are best, (lol!), I really enjoyed reading James Blake's book, Breaking Back. Andre's book was awesome...if you can get past the F-bombs which he doens't hold back in using in the text.

I also liked My Aces...My Faults by Nick and John Barrett's beautiful book, Wimbledon: the Official history of the Championships.

I've always felt most instructional books left something behind. (Hence, one of the reasons I wrote Tennis Mastery and Coaching Mastery...not to mention that I wanted to reference my father's incredible legacy...a man whose teams won 399 consecutive team matches in Southern Califronia over an 11 year period!)